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    Northwest Passage: Poems Selected and Revised
    Northwest Passage: Poems Selected and Revised
    Northwest Passage: Poems Selected and Revised
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    Northwest Passage: Poems Selected and Revised

    By Wayne Luckmann

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    Northwest Passage offers a selection of poems that traces the poet’s own development and the development of his poetry in both style and substance. The poems in this collection presents the significance and meaning of various events during several decades, many of those events taking place within the rich setting of the Pacific Northwest. From the disturbing imagery of “Nuremberg Revisited” to the hope of a new year in “Reconnaissance

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSquirrel Haven Publishing
    Release dateApr 1, 2019
    ISBN9780463215685
    Northwest Passage: Poems Selected and Revised
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    Wayne Luckmann

    Wayne Luckmann, a student of life and of ideas, writes from the basis of what he has experienced over several decades and what he has learned through observation and through close and repeated readings in literature, science, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, languages, and art. After surviving service of over forty years as tenured faculty at Green River College in Auburn, WA, and eleven years in Glendale, Arizona fostering rescued dogs and feral cats, he now resides in Bremerton, WA, his days now focused on continued reading in all his chosen subjects, continued study of the classical guitar, and dedicated attention to Works in Progress.

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      Northwest Passage - Wayne Luckmann

      Northwest Passage

      Poems Selected and Revised

      by

      Wayne Luckmann

      Copyright © 2018 by Wayne Luckmann

      Contents

      The Portable Cage

      The Prelude

      The Legacy

      Nuremberg Revisited

      Kiji Thinking

      Appearances

      Séance

      The Haunting

      Adam on the Morning After

      Seminar

      Windfall

      Vacation Stop

      Letter to Simpson

      The Prairie

      Closed Circuit

      Epithalamium

      Nonce on a Theme by Sandburg

      Running the Maze

      Communion of Saints

      Reconnaissance

      Accident/Incident

      Forced March

      Civilization and its Dissonance

      Leave Taking

      The Poet Considers Zhivago

      Fourth Floor North

      Barn Cleaning

      Marathon

      The Whale

      The Sacrament

      Singularity

      Detritus

      Leaving the Yellow House

      Northwest Passage

      Northwest Passage

      Moon Cycle

      Epithalamion

      Transcoaxial

      Ghetto Room

      Dragon Effect at Hurricane Ridge

      Union Bay Village

      Beginnings

      Poetry Reading

      47 degrees North

      Aftermath

      Crows and Seagulls

      Contemplation

      Arboretum Dependency

      Raptor

      The Bounty

      Poet’s Choice

      Poet’s Choice

      The Garden

      Words for Pascal’s Dervish

      Rondo on Blue Paper Pavane

      Study3-Word Child

      Study4-Night

      Study5-Ashes

      Study8-Voices

      Pantoum1-Brief Gifts

      Pantoum2-Web

      Pantoum3-Web-2

      Villanelle

      Mea Culpa

      Sauntering

      Mexican Bus Ride

      View from on Top the Great Pyramid

      On Top the Great Pyramid at Chichen-Itza’

      Ball Court at Chichen-Itza’

      Esplanade at Chichen-Itza’

      Leaving Merida

      Leaving Merida-2

      The Sewerage Problem at Versailles

      Agnostic

      Tourist

      Venice

      View from Coit Tower

      At the Fair in Sacramento

      Creation by Design

      Encounters

      Clytemnestra

      Thais

      A Poem for Sancho

      For Lorca

      The Nativity

      On Aggression

      Original Sin

      Boot Camp

      Poems on Occasion

      A Poem for All Occasions

      On Offering a Gift Calendar

      A Secular Prayer

      In Praise of Courtly Love

      Nonce on a Theme by Williams

      The Dance

      Sanctuary

      Taking Leave

      Epiphanies

      Silence

      Through a Glass Darkly

      The Vision

      Theme and Variation

      Tragic Flaw

      Burial

      Song

      Transport

      Caboose

      Secular Saints

      Descartes in Stockholm

      Spinoza at the Hague

      Kant in Konigsberg

      John Stuart Mill at Avignon

      William James in the Adirondacks

      On Denoting Bertrand Russell

      Wittgenstein in Wien

      Camus in Sens

      Oppenheimer at Trinity Test Site

      Bronowski in East Hampton

      Eiseley in the City of Brotherly Love

      Hawking in the Nebula on the Sword of Orion

      Second Series

      Matthew Arnold at Liverpool

      Sartre in Saint-Germain-des-Pre’s

      Envoi

      Acknowledgments

      Afterword

      The Portable Cage

      The Prelude

      As my soul buds

      then spreads its green

      translucent

      fabric

      toward the sun

      revealing veins

      revealing fibers

      toughened into cellulose

      spirit pooled

      to living matter

      absorbed

      fused and formed

      to structures as delicate

      and strong as bones

      that sometimes bend

      or break

      and mend again

      If Spirit—

      Soul

      is strong enough

      to heal wounds from the world

      the ragged holes

      of gnawing worms

      exposing fibers

      to the desiccating wind

      If heartwood grows

      How can it hold?

      Will spirit spiral

      toward glowing autumn rain

      or silvered twirling sunlight?

      The quality of cellulose

      the purity of transformation

      the clarity of distillate

      will tell

      The Legacy

      A concertina

      Marbled red

      With ivory button keys

      Sang on warm nights

      The world became a concertina

      The night was ripe

      with melody From rushing air

      A red concertina

      With ivory button keys

      Sang hushed sweet sounds

      On summer nights

      While dark cold beer

      Foamed in heavy glasses

      And stilled soft voices

      Hidden in the warm blue night

      God! How I feared

      That gray-haired man

      Who played the concertina

      On warm blue nights

      Each Christmas

      He gave us silver coin

      In exchange for bristled cheeks

      Now

      The concertina

      Lies in heavy dust

      Once

      We sat on summer porches

      Watched the traffic moving by

      And heard the distant

      Creaking screen door

      Slamming

      To

      Nuremburg Revisited

      Suddenly

      I see those screaming

      Men before the multitude

      I see the vast red flags

      White heavy circles twisted crosses

      I see torches, high stone walls

      Packed hordes heated

      In the hot night

      Then

      I hear the frenzied cries

      Returned

      Again, again, again, again

      Until the massive wave of voices

      Echoes thunder from the walls

      The minds

      The souls of men

      Echoes

      Still

      My grandfather—

      He was there

      From whose loins

      My mother came

      Who in her turn

      Whelped me

      In the heavy heat

      Of a late June night

      Kiji Thinking

      One warm, starry summer night,

      Beyond bright days upon the lake,

      Beyond green calm of evening water,

      We rode an unknown, winding road

      That seemed so wide my spirit

      Swelled with pungent fields,

      Silted corn, burning skies

      Deepening toward night.

      We came up a carnival.

      The gathering night was ripe

      With colored lights. We walked on

      Straw among closed booths

      And came upon a darkened ride.

      My mother said,

      "Remember when we went on this

      The year before we married?

      I got sick, it went so fast."

      I saw a rafter crushed beneath another.

      Evening shadows fell between the beams.

      A sign shut out the bright maze of carnival.

      Then within the heavy silence,

      Darker as we drove away,

      I heard a distant bugle call

      From somewhere

      At the limits of my mind.

      Séance

      In memory

      that hawk soars

      still suspended

      there above

      the stirring

      green plush contours

      of undulant moraine

      flowing to the silver drop

      of distant lake

      gouged eons ago

      Appearances

      Fleeing wasted streets,

      wandering ghosts

      with dark dead eyes,

      we cross the gleaming river

      lined with ships that now make

      their slow way to the ocean,

      past docks bristling with cranes

      heaving huge cargo of luxuries

      from foreign ports

      Crossing the bridge that spans

      what once was verdant valley

      now cross-hatched with glistening

      railroad tracks crowded with

      boxcars, boxcars, boxcars

      where indigent people once met

      in reconciliation and renewal,

      high on a green hill against

      the glistening skyline of the city,

      girded storage tanks,

      majestic image of a grand hotel

      and tall church spire, the silhouette

      pioneer monument log cabin

      whose roof I often climbed,

      sitting on the peak to gaze

      in rapture at the world until

      I eased to the roof

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